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- A while ago I indicated that it would be nice if you could set the mail
- domain the c-client uses for parsing unqaulified addresses. Here's some
- other folks that would like to see it happen. I suppose we could be
- pedegogical and say no to encourage people to fully qualify addresses, but
- sendmail configuration is difficult and I don't know if this is a battle
- worth fighting.
-
- I think this would also make Pine a little more self consistent.
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- LL
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- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 17:13:40 +0100 (BST)
- From: Laurie Cuthbert <L.G.Cuthbert@qmw.ac.uk>
- To: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
- Cc: pine-info@cac.washington.edu
- Subject: Re: Domain names
-
- Yes - it does do this and at first we thought, like you, that it would be
- a major problem.
-
- However, we have decided that pine is so worth using that we changed the
- sendmail configuration to add the local domain name to all mail,
- irrespective of the MUA being used. Presumably you are using the UK
- sendmail configuration version 2.1 - if so there is a parameter that turns
- on or off the local channel domain stamping.
-
- In fact it proved to have an added benefit for us becuase we use
- departmental domains internally, but only the site domain for
- external messages, with PP massaging the name fields. By ensuring that the
- domain name is ALWAYS stamped PP will correctly massage all fields,
- including local CC fields.
-
- Regards
-
- Laurie Cuthbert
-
- On Wed, 23 Sep 1992, Philip Hazel wrote:
-
- > I've had to back off using Pine for the moment, because of the problem
- > described below. Luckily, I was just experimenting with it. Any ideas as
- > to how to get round it, apart from hacking the code?
- >
- > I have
- >
- > # Domain name you are in e.g. nwnet.net, cac.washington.edu, bwc.org
- > user-domain=cus.cam.ac.uk
- >
- > # Eliminate host part from hostname, using only domain part for domain name
- > use-only-domain-name=yes
- >
- > and for all the mail I send out, this works fine. Unqualified names end up
- > as "name@cus.cam.ac.uk", which is what is wanted. There are several
- > machines in the cus.cam.ac.uk domain, but they form a common mail system.
- > The problem arises when I receive mail from another local user whose mail
- > user agent does *not* fully qualify names. So I have something like
- >
- > From: someuser
- >
- > in my inbox. Pine displays this as
- >
- > From: someuser@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk
- >
- > when I am running it on the machine bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk, or with a
- > different name if I run it on another machine. This is disastrous,
- > especially if I want to reply. [It is more disastrous for a machine in the
- > UK than for other Internet machines, because of the dual mail registration
- > with the JANET network. Only the shorter name is registered with JANET.]
- > It looks as if Pine (version 3.05, running on a Sun) is ignoring the
- > use-only-domain-name parameter when displaying unqualified names in
- > incoming mail.
- >
- > Philip Hazel
- >
- > --
- > Internet: P.Hazel@ucs.cam.ac.uk University Computing Service,
- > JANET: P.Hazel@uk.ac.cam.ucs Computer Laboratory, Pembroke St,
- > Phone: +44 223 334714 Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
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